The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #136104   Message #3106365
Posted By: GUEST,c.g.
03-Mar-11 - 01:55 PM
Thread Name: 18th century dancing masters
Subject: RE: 18th century dancing masters
You can't say that a B section with 15 bars is *certainly* a mistake. You can't assume all dances ever written had multiples of 8 bars. We have to be very careful about assuming things are mistakes, in fact it's better not to unless you have very good reasons in the case of the individual tune.